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compete with
verb as in compare
verb as in emulate
Example Sentences
This “America First” strategy seeks a return to the policies that prevailed early in the last century, when U.S. manufacturing was protected from overseas competition by high tariff walls — that is, high surcharges on imported goods that make them too expensive to compete with U.S. products.
In these bogs, fungi compete with mycobacteria to grow within a decomposing "gray layer" that, similarly to lesions found in the lungs of tuberculosis patients, is acidic, nutrient-poor, and oxygen-poor.
Senate Republicans don’t want to vote for someone in the midst of nonstop negative stories, and Trump has little patience for the scandals that compete with his own.
And on Wednesday, General Motors, a onetime cornerstone of American industrial might, said it was taking a $5 billion hit to profit to recognize that it was no longer able to adequately compete with Chinese carmakers.
When a new plant species wants to populate a new ecosystem, it has to compete with other inhabitants for light, nutrients and water.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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